On my flight up from HK I watched a DVD rip on my iPad of a 2009 Japanese film with the unimaginative title "Ballad". It's mostly Family friendly fantasy fun about a kid who gets magically transported back in time to feudal Japan's warring states period. In addition to marveling the locals with his modern gadgets, he also befriends a Samura...Read more
OK, I've been waiting for this to come out for a few weeks... almost hoping no one would see it.... but the cat is out of the bag -
If you happen to pass through the Quarry Bay MTR station in the next few days, you may see this dork's face on a pillar staring back at you:
No, that's not something I photoshopped together... its part of a series of...Read more
Picking up where I left off in the last blog with my Sai Kung bike adventure... since my bike was all the way over here and I didn't know when, if ever i'd ever over here w/ a bike again, I thought I'd try some to go to some of the scenic areas nearby before heading back to 'civilization'.. Unfortunately fate wasn't playing along...
I thought I'd try ride to the High Island Reservoir to the east side of Saikung Bay, but unfortunately the one road that connects to it is also Sai Sha road,...Read more
Last weekend I went to visit my friend's shop in Shenzhen. Its the SZ branch of an HK chain of este type spas. Apparently they also handle men:
such as this slim and trim fellow.... he looks like a slightly younger version of our good friend Andrew Lin... :-P
On Friday night I went to see the new Peter Chan directed film "Wu Xia", starring Donnie Yen, Tang Wei and Takeshi Kaneshiro. My expectations were muted... The last Donnie Yen film I saw was Rocky IV, I mean Ip Man 2, which was such a POSI had almost given up on him. The film starts out well... Very well actually. I was a bit perplexed why it had the tit...Read more
How do I describe Beach Spike ( 熱浪球愛戰)? Good? Bad? So bad it's good? So bad it's bad?
To paraphrase one of my favorite lines from The Simpsons (episode FAF09) - "Beach Spike is the second best breast + volleyball movie I've ever seen!"
(the first being Japan's 2009 film Read more
I was reading an article online and it mentioned this interesting 'feature' on Google maps.
It presents you with a challenge:
How Google Says to Get From China to Taiwan
*Open Google Maps' Directions. *Type in "China" as the starting point. *Type in "Taiwan" as the destination. *Scroll down and read step 48. *Tr...Read more
Last night we were invited to attend the 3rd anniversary fashion show put on by La Miu ( www.lamiu.com), a high end online women's lingerie brand here in the Mainland. You may recall ...Read more
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